A mural covers a restored building in Nantou’s old town, the focus of the Shenzhen half of the 10th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. Photo: Enid Tsui A mural covers a restored building in Nantou’s old town, the focus of the Shenzhen half of the 10th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. Photo: Enid Tsui
A mural covers a restored building in Nantou’s old town, the focus of the Shenzhen half of the 10th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. Photo: Enid Tsui
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Censorship, muddled thinking undermine Shenzhen-Hong Kong expo on urban design and architecture

Cross-border exhibition meant to bring the cities together instead highlights differences and throws up contradictions, not least its staging in an urban village in Shenzhen without reference to Beijing’s razing of such settlements

Topic |   Architecture and design
Enid Tsui
Enid Tsui

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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A mural covers a restored building in Nantou’s old town, the focus of the Shenzhen half of the 10th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. Photo: Enid Tsui A mural covers a restored building in Nantou’s old town, the focus of the Shenzhen half of the 10th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. Photo: Enid Tsui
A mural covers a restored building in Nantou’s old town, the focus of the Shenzhen half of the 10th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture. Photo: Enid Tsui
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